PUBG tips and tricks: How to master Hot Drops to win the ultimate Chicken Dinner

Getting your hands on hot drops can help you massively in the game along with adding to the overall experience of playing the battle royale game, PUBG.

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Getting your hands on hot drops can help you massively in winning chicken dinners

Hot drops can improve your performance in the game

For any PUBG fan, winning a chicken dinner can be a truly exhilarating experience. However, securing one is easier said than done. There are a lot of things that one has to take care of before they can master the highly competitive battle royale game and become chicken dinner winner.

But with professional tournaments with the huge prize money finding their way into the fray, PUBG Mobile has become a game that cannot be taken lightly. With the game becoming such a big phenomenon, players now need to improve not only on their game but also master the finer details of PUBG to become a champion at it.

One of these is hot drops.

Getting your hands on hot drops can help you massively in the game along with adding to the overall experience of playing the battle royale game. Typically, the best tip one would get if you want to make a hot drop is to be very good at the basics and know the must-knows.

But apart from the must-knows, here's a masterplan to help players get their chicken dinners at a hot drop.

The Basics: Develop skill in all quarters

The best way to win at hot drops is to be good at the game.

This includes knowing and being comfortable with all weapons, smart positioning, and the ability to choose when to play defensive and when to play offensive. It would be a rookie mistake to remain hopeful of getting one’s favourite gun and go in unprepared to handle other guns. Upskilling should involve getting better at all weapons.

Positioning is also very important. The most important here is to not remain in the same position ever. Especially when a player takes a shot. So, if you take a shot through one window and miss or do minimal damage, it would be a smart move to shift to another window to make the kill-shot.

Hone the Landing Technique

When a player lands, the first objective is simply to find a weapon and take a position with enough cover. There are few ways to optimize this whole process, and it starts with the parachute jump. If a player wants to drop at a desired location and land first, then the drop needs to be precisely timed.

A player should ideally make the drop at about 600 mts to 800 mts from the target. After the jump, the player needs to fly or drop at an optimal terminal velocity speed of 231 kms/hr to 234 kms/hr up until about 100 mts to 120 mts from the target. A player can achieve this using the down directional button.

Land on roofs to access loot faster

Landing on rooftop helps a player access the guns with little more ease and a bit faster. The combination of fast descent and landing on the roof may give a player precious few seconds as an advantage -- which would be enough to make a significant difference in survival.

Find SMGs and reload magazines before they hit zero

The Sub-Machine Guns (SMGs) are very advantageous in a hot drop location. Though you should ideally go for any gun, if you end up with an SMG it could be the best thing to happen. Also, it would be a smart move to upgrade if you end up with a different gun.

Another important point to remember is to always find cover and change magazines before maxing out. This way you don’t end up in a position where you must change the magazine in the middle of an engagement. That could be a fatal mistake.

There are a couple of features within the game that are primarily designed to help players. These would be the audio and visual cues that the players receive to intimate them of enemies in the vicinity. Having a keen eye on the minimap and closely listening to sounds greatly helps players get an edge over their enemies.